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Steenkappen - Beeldhouwen

I live and work in and around Ghent, Belgium. For me, being an artist is an active verb. Impressions, received by your surroundings and interaction with others, lead to conscious actions called art. Sculptures, drawings, paintings and other artistic realisations are a mark, a print of an ongoing process.

While studing literature and arts, I found myself more drawn to the process of creation. I frequented the atelier of Igor Calsyn in NEST (Ghent) to study drawings of 19th century's masters. A more radical turn in my career was the opportunity to work for Sara De Groeve in the artistic bronze foundry (Merelbeke). Working with wax, silicone, plaster and bronze gave me the basis for further artisic research.

In my work I try to find a synthesis of antiquity and modernism in the large sense of the concepts. Classic excercises and techniques (like the Charles Bargue drawing course, moulding and casting, copying ornaments and masters casts) are opposed to modernist thinking (experiment, technology and progress).

My relationship with stonework started on a sunny springtime afternoon in the garden of Kathelijne De Vriendt. She initiated me in the use of hammers, chisels and the process of taille-directe. I continued slowly to accustome this durable medium in Atelier Compaan, where I finished my stonemason's education trajectory. During the summer of 2020 I participated at the bildhauer symposium of the International Summer Academy (Salzburg).

The past year I became an apprentice in L'Atelier de Sculpture (Soignies/ Neufvilles), founded by master-sculptor Alexandre Callet. The appenticeship trajectory was subsidized by the Flemish Government (Departement Cultuur, Jeugd & Media). After the apprenticeship, I worked as an assistent-sculptor in the atelier. In 2024 I received a grant from the King Baudouin Foundation to organise a study-trip to Italy to learn portait modelling and human figure in Studio della Statua (Florence) and an introduction to the mise-au-point technique in L'Atelier de Sculpture.

Two years ago I taught sculpture and modelling at the Kunstatelier Willebroek and in 2025 I organise a sculpture/modelling class at the Vrije Academie Gent.

If you want to contact me, with an idea, request, question,... call me on +32499123384 or mail to hallo@sebastienvermeulen.be

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